The texts look at life from various sides, such as: joy, love, quest for paradise and memories.
The songs were written for soprano Channa Malkin and guitarist Izhar Elias.
The poems are:
- The white peace (William Sharp)
- The life that I have - (Leo Marks)
- Eldorado - (Edgar Allen Poe)
- Come slowly - Eden! (Emily Dickinson)
- Music, when soft voices die
(Percy Bysshe Shelley)
- Leisure (William Henry Davies)
- Joy (Sara Teasdale)
Total duration: ca. 12 minutes.
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Latest work is A void for string trio (vl, vla, vc)
2020 - Centenary of the publication of W.B. Yeats's famous poem "The Second Coming" Listen to my musical setting of this poem here.
New work: "Psalms of Life" seven songs for soprano and guitar, written for Izhar Elias and Channa Malkin. Read more ... Premiere postponed.
New work: "La guitarra" (Federico García Lorca) for choir and guitar.(2020) Written for guitarist Klaas de Jong (to whom it is dedicated) and the Leeuwarder Madrigaalkoor. Premiere postponed.
Guitarist Klaas de Jong has recorded "El alma dormida - in memoriam Guido Topper."
Great playing!
Listen on YouTube here.
The dancer (2019) A new work for trumpet, marimba, violin & viola.
Blodeuwedd (2018) a dance poem for narrator, singer/reciter, dancers and ensemble. The poem is by the Welsh writer and poet Tony Conran.
Time to fly (2018) written for the Bron Saxophone Quartet.
Ritual text for the afterlife for female voice and vibraphone.
(2019)
Ancient Greek goldplates with texts - recently found in graves - that were carried by the dead on their journey to afterlife.
Draaf, Foekje. Draaf!
Watch the television interview. (You need to understand Frisian, though).
Calendar
March 21, 2020 Time to Fly for saxophone quartet
the Bron saxophone quartet
De Kopermolen, Vaals
January 26, 2019
Music, when soft voices die (Shelley) for voice and guitar. Izhar Elias & Channa Malkin. (guitar and soprano) MerkAz, Utrecht. Premiere
February 9, 2019 Time to fly for saxophone quartet. The Bron saxophone quartet. Concerten de Korenwinde, Rhenen. Premiere
April 11, 2019 Homenaje pour le tombeau de Claude Debussy (Manuel de Falla) - arranged for flute, viola & harp ONEIROS ensemble.
Grote Kerk, Epe.
April 14, 2019 Time to fly for saxophone quartet. The Bron saxophone quartet.
Tilburg,
Kapel Mariengaarde. 13.30
April 25, 2019 Time to fly for saxophone quartet.
Eindhoven, Muziekgebouw.12:30
May 12, 2019 Time to Fly for saxophone quartet
Burchtzaal / Kapel van Mariaoord
Rosmalen
May 26, 2019 Time to Fly for saxophone quartet
Cultuurcentrum de Ogtent, Duiven
Piz Amalia Music Festival 2019
The Dancer for trumpet, marimba, violin & viola 18 September 2019, Konservatorium Winterthur 20 September 2019,
Bergkerk S-charl 21 September 2019, NAIRS Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst, Scuol 22 September 2019, Matineeconcert in Hotel Belvédère, Scuol 15 November 2019, Paleiskerk, Den Haag
Latest work is A void for string trio (vl, vla, vc)
New work: "La guitarra" (Federico García Lorca) for choir and guitar.(2020)